competency of teachers and job satisfactory with an emphasis on constructivism

نویسندگان [English]

zahra abolhasani1؛ mohamad javadipour2

1Department of Methods and Educational Planning of Tehran University

2Faculty Member of Tehran University

چکیده [English]

The purpose of this article is study about the relationship between middle school teacher’s job satisfactory and their competency; also measuring the level and amount of this professional competency based on constructivism approach. The study type is applied research and descriptive (mean and frequency) and in inferential statistics part, mean, independent t-test, single t-test, and Pearson correlation coefficient methods has been used. The competency for constructivism test was used by means of questionnaire. Reliability of the constructivism professional competency questionnaire based on Cronbach's alpha was 0.98 and for questionnaire of job satisfactory based on Cronbach's alpha was 0.81. Middel school teachers (164 male and 177 female teaching during 2016-2017) in Baharestan area were the participants. For sampling, Census method has been used. Results of independent t-test showed that teachers have an average amount of constructivism professional competency. Based on Pearson correlation coefficient between job satisfactory and constructivism professional competency is 0.37. In whole, results showed that teachers who have higher job satisfactory will have a higher amount of constructivism professional competency.

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